Create the validation behavior public class ValidationBehaviour<T> : BasicBehavior where T : class { private readonly IContinuationDirector continuationDirector; private readonly BehaviorGraph behaviorGraph; private readonly IFubuRequest fubuRequest; private readonly IValidator<T> validator; public ValidationBehaviour(IContin... continuationDirector, BehaviorGraph behaviorGraph, IFubuRequest fubuRequest, IValidator<T> validator) : base(PartialBehavior.Ignored) { this.continuationDirector...
Greeting to all. Just created an account with GeeksWithBlogs.net and configured Word 2010 as my blogging client of choice...
Introduction iTextSharp is a useful library for creating PDF documents in .Net. However because of the right to left nature of Hebrew and Arabic texts, adding them to the document normally through iTextSharp renders them unreadable. Lets take a look at how we can solve this problem. Download iTextSharp here Please read the comments to guide you through the code. Code using iTextSharp.text; using iTextSharp.text.pdf; using System.Text.RegularExpressi... using System.IO; using System.Diagnostics;...
So I am new to TDD and have been enjoying the ride of learning a new approach – today I came across an interesting situation that I thought I would blog about. I was writing a class that had all sorts of string manipulation in it. I needed some helper methods that would extend my string manipulation abilities. I had read somewhere that I should avoid static methods when doing TDD so I wrote the initial helper class to look something like this… public class StringHelper { public string ReverseStringEx1(string...
It is challenging sometimes to find last occurrence of a character in a string. I hope the following formula can help: =SEARCH("@",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"... * Considering that the Text is in cell A1, and we are looking for "\" character...
In this all-submittal post-"GoLive" 3 week marathon Issue: Vikas, Rene Schulte, Ollie Riches, Alex van Beek, Kevin Dockx, Michael Crump(-2-), Michael Washington, Antoni Dol, Colin Eberhardt(-2-, -3-), and Lazar Nikolov. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Paging Data from the Server with Silverlight" Colin Eberhardt WP7: "Tessellating shapes on top of Bing Maps in a WP7 app" Ollie Riches LightSwitch: "Creating a Minimal LightSwitch Shell" Michael Washington Metro/WinRT: "Photoshop in METRO style" Antoni...
Last week I pushed a new application up to production, and started hearing complaints of a memory leak. After running some diagnostics I learned two exciting things: http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ti... The current version of jQuery UI (1.18.16) has a memory leak with the DatePicker control - including the DatePicker control as part of the jQuery UI is all it takes to cause memory to be allocated and never returned until the browser is closed. Every refresh of the page, or every time a new page is...
About a month ago, Microsoft announced the release of Lync for Mac. If you have access to TechNet or MSDN you likely have access to download this tool. Among the benefits of the tool, being able to connect to Office 365. Exciting news, yet for some odd reason it was a battle if you had upgraded to Lion (have not heard of anyone having issues that is running on Snow Leopard). Microsoft then released an update for Lync for Mac. Now, after the update, it was still no dice for me. Upon further research...
This is a test entry. Not sure how to format code yet. workPlanner.Url = "http://epmlivedemo/sites/w... string result = workPlanner.Execute("GetTas... @"<GetTasks ID=""2"" Planner=""WorkPlanner""/>... Console.WriteLine(result); Console.ReadLine();...
Windows Phone 7.5 represents a new and credible challenge in the smartphone space for both consumers and businesses to adopt with confidence. With strong predictions from some of the leading think tank organizations saying that Windows Phone will be number two in global market share by 2015 (behind Android), there has never been a better time for developers to start learning how to build apps for Windows Phone and understand how to be successful on the platform. In this day-long workshop, we will...
The Azure Table service, provides a semi-structured storage in the form of tables that contain a collection of entities, these entities have primary keys and set of properties. A property is a name, typed-value pair. Every entity in table storage has two key properties, Partition Key and the Row key which together uniquely identify each entity in the table. The Table Service API is compliant with REST API provided by WCF Data Services. In order to use the WCF Data Services Client Library to access...
I have always been a fan of Google Reader. I have been using it since it first came out and have never tried another feed reader. Yesterday they decided to update the UI to fit their new G+ look and in my opinion, made the application almost impossible to use. I have three main machines I use on a daily basis. A Dell XPS desktop with dual 24 inch monitors, a Toshiba Protégé with a 13 inch display, and a 11 inch MacBook Air. When I am at my desk all day, the Dell is awesome for getting development...
As an GWB-influencer I had the chance to review SmartAssembly. Because obfuscation is an important part in protecting intellectual property this review chance was a good start for this. The first few clicks show that not only obfuscation could be made with SmartAssembly but also some other very interesting things. The complete review could be read here: GWB-Review SmartAssembly...
Much has been the expectation about Silverlight 5 ever since the fire-starter in December 2010 Silverlight 5 has been the expectation of every SL developer ever since the SL4 release and the huge momentum surrounding HTML5 on the web. While HTML5 is definitely promising, Silverlight and other proprietary plugins have their own strengths in terms of rich capabilities such as Digital Rights Management which have evolved to a great extent. In MIX 2011, Scott Guthrie unveiled Silverlight 5 Beta among...
I wanted to have a VM that I could access remotely and thought why not take advantage of the VM role. So I just documented my steps, for those of you might be interested, but more importantly for myself, if I have to do this again. the server image that is used for the VM role in windows Azure consists of a base VHD and may or may not have differencing VHD. to create the base VHD you can use Hyper-V Manager. Creating the Base VM image In Hyper-V manager connect to your server , right-click the server...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for October 24 - 30, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Photoshop in METRO style Nokia giving away 25,000 Lumia 800 Windows Phones to developers Windows 8 Development Platform Clarified New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5 – Using pInvoke Nokia’s First Two Windows Phones Are Here. And They’re Awesome Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
If you work with SQL Server you will eventually encounter a JOIN statement. This JOIN statement can be stated as an ordinary JOIN, or as a sub select. In most cases I try to use JOINS (even though it’s just for readability), but in some cases it’s quicker to do it in a sub select (for example with production code, in which you don’t want to change the output but filter output). Curious about the performance differences between the two, I tried to create a test. I created 2 tables with country information:...
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I have recently being trying to implement TDD as a practice in writing code. Up to now I buy into many of the benefits of TDD but it is one thing agreeing that a practice is good and a totally different thing implementing the practice. The approach I have taken was relatively simple, Write a test to exercise the functionality you want in a method Run test – it will fail Implement method Run test – it should pass Repeat first step Seems simple enough… when it came to implementing the process a concern...
This month Austria joins the league of nations that have reduced their IE6 usage to below 1%! For details see http://www.ie6countdown.com... Next month Belgium now at 1% could go below 1%! I encourage people to upgrade from IE6 - are you...
With SSRS we can quickly generate reports that can be exported to multiple formats. What happens when you want to extend your report with custom code? Friday November 11th 2011 (this Veteran's Day) I'll be talking about just that in Eden Prairie MN during: http://sqlsaturday.com/99/e... Perhaps you need a custom authentication layer, custom access to data requiring .Net code, or you want to extend some of the controls that come out of the box with SSRS. In this session we will see an example...
Introduction I’m sure by now you have heard that the Kinect SDK has been released by Microsoft. I recently had a chance to Guest Blog for the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog on “Getting the Most out of the Kinect SDK”. Now before we get started learning about it, let’s look at what it is: *Kinect for Xbox 360, or simply Kinect (originally known by the code name Project Natal),[8] is a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console. Based around a webcam-style add-on...
For a full explanation and step-by-step guide to setup a linked server through Sql Management Studio (SMS), check out this reference: http://www.databasejournal.... Here it is in a nutshell: If you are setting up a linked server for another sql server 2005/2008 box, just remember to (1) name the Linked server the same name as its network name, (2) select and provide under the security option ,"Be made...
Another issue I found was the use of the Value attribute on Submit buttons. This is handy because you can change the Value attribute depending on the action and then pick up the button with its Name attribute in a controller method. Enter the ipad safari browser. Apparently this browser does not pickup the value attribute value and put it in the request variables. It just comes to the controller method as empty. The solution was to create a hidden input field and set it. Then pick it up as a parameter...
I have been working for months on converting an ASP classic app to MVC 3. This new version needs to run on FF and Ipad Safari. one of the things we found was the user of just the Name attribute for controls such as input and so forth. This works fine in IE and some other browsers. But Safari chokes on this. The solution is to make the Name and the ID the same and then all the browsers are happy...
When you download the samples for this sdk, they are going to be read only as they are coming from the web. Windows 7 is pretty smart about this and automatically marks them read only, then VS 2010 picks that up and warns you Then when you try to run the sample, if the sample tries to read the config files it will most likely throw an exception. The solution I found was to use Windows Explorer and mark all sample folders as read write. Make sure VS is closed when you do this. Then open VS and boom,...
During the last months, I was (for some reasons that are not related to programming) working for a dev shop where software development was done the 'traditional' way: You just write your application's production code, do it as good as you can, and hopefully it will be good enough and no problems will occur in production (this is HDD: Hope-driven development). Anyway, after I had finished this contract, I felt the need to review some core aspects of what I think is Test-driven development. And while...
Well it's been a while since I've been able to post as I've been kept busy by moving, getting set up and fixing the car (it actually took 2 weeks and got failed on MOT twice...). So now everything is actually smoothing out I can start working again on posts! I did try to keep track of the comments and helping out where possible. So what will the future hold for this blog? Firstly we'll start out with a revamp of the Hyper-V build and notes seeing as I got stopped in the middle. I'll put up build...
In the past weeks I have discussed about the Preview ASP.NET MVC 4. So, now I will show another great features in ASP.NET MVC 4. After installing, you will have new ASP.NET MVC4 Web Application template when creating new project in VS.NET 2010. Once you click OK the following dialog box will appear If you have experience with ASP.NET MVC3, you will realize that the selected template int he previous screen, Mobile Application, wasn't there up to now. So, in ASP.NET MVC4 we have new Mobile Application...
This is part 2 of a 2 part series exploring the MEF.We covered some of the basics in Part 1 In this part we'll cover the following: Catalogs Recomposition Export Providers Catalogs: Catalogs provide one way for MEF to discover components that it can compose. In it's most basic form it contains a registration of types. A container by itself is just an empty repository. The catalog is the one that collects and returns ComposablePartDefinitions i.e (objects of types that you have registered with MEF)...
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At http://www.darkreading.com/... you will find details of the mass SQL Injection Attacks that have taken place recently. These attacks appear to have compromised a million web sites. There are links to a further 3 reports. These are: http://twimgs.com/darkreadi... (this explains the blind SQL attack) http://i.techweb.com/darkre...
On CodePlex there is a new project at http://nsession.codeplex.com for sharing session state between classic ASP and ASP.NET "The objective of this project is to allow ASP Classic to access ASP.NET out-of-process session stores in the same way that ASP.NET accesses them, and thus share the session state with ASP.NET. In the initial release, we only support the ASP.NET state server as it is a popular choice and it offers better performance than the SQL Server session store. Please see the Documentation...
Sometime ago, say around mid April, 2011 I posted about Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 by going in a different path than using the standalone installation. This post is about what happens after the installation and initial configuration of your Windows 7 “development farm” gets the bits, and goes through the Central Admin and management perspective to get you to the first screen that says “Hi, SharePoint here, would you like to play a game of chess” (yeah, it does not really say that, but...
In the previous blog post I discussed working with the list import tool for creating lists which was a timesaver for developing lists in the UI and then importing that list into a Visual Studio solution. I had some time in-between projects to make this process for simple lists just using the default views. How about doing this entire process in about 15 minutes in code! This is such a time saver that I just had to blog about it and save other developers this time intensive task! 1. Use a utilities...
· For the last decade, the majority of my dev work has leveraged the .NET Framework for construction of information systems. However, my interest has lain in numerical computing. · Is it possible to have an increasingly higher level of abstraction and at the same time achieve underlying high performance computing? The prevailing winds say no: C# is aimed at productivity, and C++ is for performance. Garbage collection was great, but do we still need it with the availability of smart pointers? Would...
We have gone through several iterations of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit in the past, and while it was not a complex process to get up and running for me, well that was not the story for many. I had the chance of participating in a Windows Azure Bootcamp, and while the attendees were aware of the requirements on the systems, well it was not as easy to get going. You can get the October refresh here: http://www.microsoft.com/do... I believe that is the reason for...
Once the installer for the AdventureWorks Community Sample Database has finished, we then need to complete the process (not mandatory, but nice to do to play with the OLAP content). The first thing we need to do is make sure we note the location of the script files and samples. The path if you are working with SQL Server 2008 R2 is as follows: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Samples\Ad... 2008R2 Analysis Services Project\enterprise” I am working with the developer edition,...
For a while now, if we have been around SQL Server we got used to the different sample databases that were provided. From Pubs to Northwind to AdventureWorks. In order to get the AdventureWorks samples we need to go to CodePlex and download the one that corresponds to the version of SQL Server we are working with. The link to the download site here : http://msftdbprodsamples.co... Now, on to the installation. Once you download the appropriate file, double click and launch...
Level: Beginner In working with the Silverlight 4 DataGrid control, I found that documentation and online examples tend to focus on validation either at the cell level, or row level. However, there could be a case where validation is required after all rows have been entered, and comparisons between rows may need to be made. One example I can think of is the case where a list of products, including SKU information, is entered by the user. The SKU code is not derived automatically, but must be unique...
I was born in 1982 in March. That year the St. Louis Cardinal’s won the world series for the first time in a long time. When I was growing up my dad, my brother, and I would go to games. We would cheer and we would scream and we really got into the games. When things were bad there were two I had in life – school and the Cards. I would enter the games and feel like I had a deep connection with my team. It was great. My aunt once said that I would be buried in my backwards Cardinal’s hat. I always...
विश्व जनसंख्या का 17% भारत में रहता है, भारत हर साल देश में लगभग 500,000 इंजीनियरों का उत्पादन करता है. भारत की राष्ट्रीय भाषा हिंदी है, 2007 की जनगणना पूर्वानुमान के अनुसार दुनिया भर मे हिंदी 336 मिलियन लोगों द्वारा बोली जाती है. अगर वह एक काफी मजबूत कारण नहीं था, ब्रायन केलर टीम फाउंडेशन सर्वर 2011 के लैब्स के लिए अधिक अनुवाद प्रोत्साहित कर रहे थे. उपलब्ध 6 प्रयोगशालाओं से 4 अनुवादित कर के मैन एक शुरुआत करी है. डाउनलोड करें => टीम फाउंडेशन सर्वर 2011 पूर्वावलोकन लैब्स हिंदी भाषा में डाउनलोड...
Carlos Chávez : Exacto Soluciones En este video veremos el proceso de desarrollo desde un alto nivel. Las herramientas y procesos para dar inicio a un proyecto. ¿Qué necesito para desarrollar un sistema embebido de Windows 7? Windows 7 (Ultimade u otra versión) Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 WES Tools – descargar desde MSDN Instalar en un Hardware Real usando un USB Insertar un USB en blanco Abrir la ventana de comandos (CMD) y seguir la siguiente secuencia: diskpart list disk <Apuntar el número...
Carlos Chávez: Exacto Soluciones HABLEMOS DE SISTEMAS EMBEBIDOS Los sistemas embebidos no son extensamente conocidos por el público, pero son usados a diario por las personas. Las PCs de uso general, laptops, servidores, Smart Phones son equipos sobre los cuales se corre y ejecutan una multitud de juegos, software, multimedia, etc. Y no necesariamente son sistemas embebidos, pero si se analiza el hardware, este si puede ser y frecuentemente se usa como base para crear un sistema embebido de uso dedicado....
Motivation During programming suddenly this error (“Failure has occurred while loading a type”) was thrown by accessing a artifact of a referenced library. In such cases I take the assembly fusion logger fuslogvw to search for problems of loading assemblies. Sometimes an old version from a not expected folder is binded. But all bindings were correct. Problem After several hour I got the right hint. Because the assembly is a COM+ one, there are some registration things in die background – and I don’t...
Today O'Reilly have two excellent deals! Data Science Starter Kit Fundamentals of Microsoft .NET Programming Grasp the basic concepts that drive all Microsoft® .NET-based languages—and prepare yourself to learn .NET programming. If you have absolutely no previous experience, no problem—simply start here! This ebook provides the foundation for all other .NET programming language books in the Start Here! series. You’ll explore programming concepts and techniques with clear explanations, easy-to-follow...
I am not a fan of the J*** language, but on its official web site at http://www.java.com/en/down... it states: "We highly recommend users remove all older versions of Java from your system. Keeping old and unsupported versions of Java on your system presents a serious security risk. Removing older versions of Java from your system ensures that Java applications will run with the most up-to-date security and performance improvements on your system."...
If you develop applications in SQL Azure, you may end up in a situation where your code needs to know if it is operating in the root database or in a Federation Member, or if it is connected to a regular user database. Two ways can be used to make this determination: using system tables, or using the USE FEDERATION command. Using System Tables This approach is the easiest to implement since it relies a SQL call only, without much logic in your application code. Assuming your code is currently connected...
Geekswithblogs Gets a Facelift
Celebrating the five year anniversary of the first post on Geekswithblogs, the GWB team has launched a new look and functionality for the community designed to help the community continue to grow and increase interaction amongst bloggers.
The new design offers bloggers and readers the ability to quickly check recent posts, popular posts, Twitter users from the community, community news, and featured bloggers.
The redesign also makes it easier for bloggers to find tutorials on how to get the most from their blogs, support information, and a community-wide tag cloud.
We hope that you will enjoy the new features and look. Here’s to another five years and to everyone that makes up Geekswithblogs!
GWB Goes to PDC ’08 – Let Us “Tag Your Top”
Geekswithblogs is proud to be a Silver Media Sponsor for the upcoming PDC ’08! This will be a great opportunity for face-to-face interaction with the developer community.
If you happen to be going to Los Angeles for the PDC, and we highly suggest you do, make sure to swing by the Geekswithblogs booth (#100) in the Expo Hall to say hi! We will have some amazing looking Geekswithblogs stickers hot off the press ready to “tag your top” – so bring your laptop by to take it from drab to fab!
GWB Podcasting from PDC ‘08
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We’d like to know what you think about the upcoming podcast. We are thinking of firing PodcastStudio.net (the official podcast of GWB) back up after the event and would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions.
GWB and PDC ’08 – We’ll Make You Famous!
A major part of our display at our PDC booth is going to include a video featuring none other than the Geekswithblogs community members! We’re proud to have you as contributors to a large, healthy blogging community and want to give you some additional exposure.
Here’s what to do; record yourself saying “I’m a geek with a blog, and I…”. Simply fill in the rest with something interesting about yourself. It could be anything from what technology you love, what you like to do in your spare time, where you live, etc.
Examples include:
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- I'm a geek with a blog, and I support my development community by presenting at user groups.
- I'm a geek with a blog, and I love playing guitar.
- I’m a geek with a blog, and I volunteer to help the homeless.
- I’m a geek with a blog, and I chug energy drinks.
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